Yuri Gagarin – A Graphic Novelhttps://www.yuri-gagarin.com
A graphic novel illustrating the incredible events that led to the first man in space
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1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1SpaceX dummy run in Spacehttps://www.yuri-gagarin.com/spacex-dummy-run-in-space/
https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/spacex-dummy-run-in-space/#respondFri, 12 Apr 2019 03:20:20 +0000https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/?p=1575Continue reading →]]>I can’t believe it was now 8 years ago since we celebrated 50 years of Yuri Gagarin‘s first manned space flight with our graphic novel Yuri’s Day. I’m fully tuned as Yuri’s famous flight was in my birth year. 8 years on the and the book seems to have barely aged. The legacy left us with the orbiting International Space Station, still served by Soyuz with a rocket that has hardly changed since Yuri’s Day. However, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has recently gone through the motions of successfully docking with the ISS on 3 March this year. As with the Soviet tests in the past, this was a dummy run and the humour of the naming – SpaceX Crew Dragon ‘Ripley’ was equal to that of the Vostok ‘Ivan Ivanovich’. I do, however, wonder about the non-naming of animals – who paved the way for the dummies – on their one way missions!https://www.spacex.com/crew-dragonhttps://www.space.com/16159-first-man-in-space.html?jwsource=cl

]]>https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/spacex-dummy-run-in-space/feed/0Ultima Thule mashuphttps://www.yuri-gagarin.com/ultima-thule-mashup/
https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/ultima-thule-mashup/#respondWed, 16 Jan 2019 17:48:22 +0000https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/?p=1569Continue reading →]]>2019 got of to a positive start, in astronomical terms. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made a close flyby of the distant object Ultima Thule on the edge of the Kuiper Belt. So little is known of this 20 mile long frozen lump but over the days and months, gigabytes collected during the flyby will trickle home to Earth.

Our own artist’s impression looks pretty convincing, but it was taken from a humble potato! Couldn’t resist showing it’s similarity in shape. I’m sure Yuri would have seen the funny side

]]>https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/ultima-thule-mashup/feed/0Sputnik Launced the Start of the Space Racehttps://www.yuri-gagarin.com/sputnik-launced-the-start-of-the-space-race/
https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/sputnik-launced-the-start-of-the-space-race/#respondThu, 04 Oct 2018 10:58:33 +0000http://www.yuri-gagarin.com/?p=1557Continue reading →]]>On this day of 4 October back in 1957, the first manmade object punched its way through Earth atmosphere. Many on the ground believed they could see the Sputnik satellite in the night sky. However, what they probably saw was the exhausted shell of the R-7 rocket that delivered it into orbit…https://www.popularmechanics.com/…/a284…/r-7-rocket-sputnik/
]]>https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/sputnik-launced-the-start-of-the-space-race/feed/08 more facts you probably didn’t know about Gagarin…https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/8-more-facts-you-probably-didnt-know-about-gagarin-we-did/
https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/8-more-facts-you-probably-didnt-know-about-gagarin-we-did/#respondWed, 01 Nov 2017 20:16:39 +0000http://www.yuri-gagarin.com/?p=1543Continue reading →]]>The senior curator of a Science Museum exhibition charting the Soviet scientific and technological ingenuity that kick-started the space age (‘Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age’, which ran until March 2016) reveals eight things you (probably) didn’t know about Yuri Gagarin: (we did, they’re in the book)!…

The world’s first Cosmonaut; everyone knows his name, but few people ever knew the man. Some say Yuri Gagarin’s iconic first spaceflight was the product of immense good fortune. Others believe he was destined for greatness. RT meets some of Gagarin’s friends and family, who tell the more personal and untold story of the first man ever to venture into space.

]]>https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/gagarins-flight-map-at-bonhams/feed/0Animated book summaryhttps://www.yuri-gagarin.com/animated-book-summary/
https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/animated-book-summary/#respondMon, 11 Jul 2016 14:48:24 +0000http://www.yuri-gagarin.com/?p=1491Continue reading →]]>Yuri Gagarin will forever be known as the first man in outer space. The Russian cosmonaut’s 108 minute journey was the start of his short but eventful second life as an international hero. Here is a nice approach to his story – a real-time animation with voice over of Yuri’s life from ObtainEudaimonia.
]]>https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/animated-book-summary/feed/0Tissue-equivalent mannequinhttps://www.yuri-gagarin.com/tissue-equivalent-mannequin/
https://www.yuri-gagarin.com/tissue-equivalent-mannequin/#respondTue, 17 May 2016 15:13:59 +0000http://www.yuri-gagarin.com/?p=1484Continue reading →]]>In 1969 this cosmonaut mannequin was sent around the Moon in the Zond 7 spacecraft as a precursor to a manned mission. Sensors were set into its body to measure radiation levels. Its face is in the image of Yuri Gagarin.

This unit was trialled in spaced by cosmonauts Viktorenko and Serebrov in 1990. It allowed a cosmonaut to manoeuvre independently in space. The cosmonaut would wear it like a backpack, operating controls on the hand panels. It propels the cosmonaut using small bursts of gas from nozzles.